One of the more popular kinds of questions we receive pertains to medicinal mushrooms. In case you don’t know, there are lots of mushrooms that are considered to have medicinal qualities. A few of them include reishi, shitaki, artist’s conk, lion’s mane, chaga, and turkey tail.

Doug Kaufmann’s Phase One Diet is basically identical to the Paleo Diet without the caveman story. Both allow for meat, berries, vegetables, good fats, etc. Both restrict sugar and grains. They’re pretty close.

First - Who said there are no carbs on Phase One? I juice almost everyday, and I’ve calculated that my giant green juice has about 60 grams of carbs. My strawberry-cashew-olive oil-cream summer breakfast salad is loaded with carbs. My autumn pumpkin smoothies are carbohydrate-rich. And all of it is Phase one.

If you’re the parent of a child with learning disabilities, you know how emotionally and fervently you seek answers. While this article neither serves as medical advice nor as a substitute for working with a licensed healthcare provider, we hope that it will arm you with some additional knowledge to help navigate your course.